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May 2013

Ricoh Americas Corporation today introduced two new full-color digital imaging systems for in-plant print centers and print service providers who demand productivity, versatility and outstanding quality at an affordable price. The RICOH Pro C5100S and RICOH Pro C5110S production imaging systems print and copy up to 65 ppm and 80 ppm respectively, producing professional-looking output that can be collated and finished in line.

Ideal for helping businesses launch their first production printing programs, the devices blend application flexibility, high productivity and cost-effectiveness in a compact footprint. In addition, both models feature a new toner formulation that increases the printable color gamut by 10 percent compared to Ricoh

May 14 - RICOH INTRODUCES VERSATILE, AFFORDABLE, COMPACT RICOH PRO C5100S AND C5110S PRODUCTION PRINTING SYSTEMS

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Ricoh Unveils ‘Essentials Production Guide’ App

Free iPad App Delivers Valuable Resource to Production Print Businesses

MALVERN, PA, May 7, 2013 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that iPad® users can now download the free Ricoh Essentials Production Guide App, which provides professionals in the digital printing, graphic arts, design and in-plant industries with a collection of productivity-enhancing tools and educational reference materials.

Powered by Ricoh Business Booster, this all new iPad App – entitled Ricoh Pro – serves up information in a striking, easy-to-navigate interactive resource. It contains key information that is vital for serving customers every day, including:

• Envelope Basics – Complete with visual references, detailed descriptions, spec information and application recommendations for the most commonly used envelopes associated with direct mail

• Keyboard Shortcuts and Symbols – An interactive guide demonstrating more than 50 shortcuts and symbols for both Mac and Windows operating systems

• Measurements and Conversions Calculators – Easy-to-use calculators for quick and accurate conversion of inches, centimeters and DTP/picas; true-to-size rulers are also included

• Glossary of Terms – A comprehensive list of industry phrases and short-hand terminology

• Industry Resources – Extensive listing of professional industry resources and print associations, organized into helpful subcategories with links to organization websites

• Paper Weights – Reference guide of common paper types and weights in both pounds and grams

• Postal Basics – Essential U.S. Postal Service guidelines, layout reference and measurement information for correctly setting up mail campaigns

• Proofreaders Marks – Visual reference of proofreader marks with definitions used by industry professionals

• Protect the Environment – Summary descriptions on the industry’s most referenced and important environmental groups

“The Ricoh Business Booster program is focused on delivering tools that help our production customers excel, and we provided the Ricoh Essentials Production Guide in a print format with favorable feedback,” said Tim Vellek, Vice President, Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “In fact, it’s their feedback that has led to us taking this resource guide to the next level and making the content dynamically available via an app.”

The new app is available for free download on iTunes® – simply search for “Ricoh Pro.”

For more information on Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

| About Ricoh |
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2013, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,924 billion yen (approx. 20 billion USD).
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May 7 - RICOH UNVEILS ‘ESSENTIALS PRODUCTION GUIDE’ APP

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February 2013

Feb 13 - RICOH’S NEW PRODUCTION SERIES BRINGS ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY TO PRINTING MARKET

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Every business wants to be green, but it can be harder than it looks. When you’re purchasing office equipment, for example, how do you determine which ones are the greenest?

To simplify and promote green purchasing, Ricoh Americas Corporation today detailed its participation in the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) program, the definitive global registry for greener electronics (www.epeat.net/). For the past three years, Ricoh has worked with EPEAT and other stakeholders to develop 59 definitive environmental criteria for Imaging Equipment. Today, the EPEAT registry expanded to include devices such as printers, copiers, multi-function products and other equipment.

EPEAT is a comprehensive green purchasing standard based upon environmental design attributes, such as, energy efficiency, recycled and recyclable materials, product longevity, packaging, and environmental programs a manufacturer has in place. EPEAT provides purchasers the capability to easily compare environmental performance and practices of various manufacturers in a standardized format.

“The EPEAT registry will help technology buyers make smart purchases that advance their company’s sustainability initiatives, reducing their environmental footprint and resulting costs,” said Jay Dizzine, Vice President, Technology Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Without EPEAT, it can be time-consuming, difficult and confusing for purchasing professionals to wade through all the specifications that may factor into sustainability or comprehend a manufacturer’s environmental program for the entire lifecycle of a product. We have Gold- and Silver-rated products today with many more to come, exemplifying our commitment to global leadership in environmental sustainability and the partnership with our customers.”

For more than six years, EPEAT has helped companies, governments and consumers compare and purchase greener PCs and monitors, resulting in significant environmental benefits. Today’s expansion into imaging equipment was heralded by congressional leaders, environmental groups, leading manufacturers and institutional purchasers.

“I applaud Ricoh for registering such a diverse range of products in EPEAT’s new Imaging Equipment category,” said Robert Frisbee, EPEAT CEO. “Ricoh’s proactive decision to embrace the EPEAT standards shows their commitment to environmental excellence across their product lines.”

EPEAT’s impact
To be added to the EPEAT Bronze registry, an imaging device must meet at least 33 required environmental performance criteria. Products may achieve higher Silver and Gold ratings by meeting up to 26 additional optional criteria. The rating criteria were developed during a four-year stakeholder consensus process that involved hundreds of representatives from the environmental, research, governmental and manufacturing sectors.

According to EPEAT:
• EPEAT’s original PC/Monitor rating system is used as an environmental requirement by eight national governments, including the United States, and thousands of purchasers worldwide. Purchase contracts that require EPEAT registration exceed $65 billion. More than 50 manufacturers have registered their “greener” PCs, monitors, copiers, printers and scanners in more than 40 countries. More than 533 million EPEAT-registered products have been purchased since the original registry debuted in July 2006.
• Since 2006, purchasers choosing EPEAT-registered electronics over products that don’t meet the system’s criteria have eliminated greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 11 million U.S. vehicles’ annual impact, avoided more than 394,000 metric tons of hazardous waste and reduced solid waste by nearly 167,000 metric tons – equivalent to nearly 86,000 U.S. households’ annual waste.

The EPEAT imaging standard is based on the specification Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1680.2 Standard for Environmental Assessment of Imaging Equipment.

For details on Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com/about/epeat/.

About EPEAT
EPEAT is the definitive global registry for greener electronics. The registry includes the most products from the broadest range of manufacturers and spans the widest array of countries. EPEAT combines strict, comprehensive criteria for design, production, energy use and recycling with ongoing independent verification of manufacturer claims. More than 533 million EPEAT-registered products have been sold worldwide since 2006, resulting in significant environmental benefits. EPEAT was developed through a stakeholder consensus process and is managed by the Green Electronics Council, a non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon. Learn more at EPEAT.net.

| About Ricoh |
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD).

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Feb 12 - RICOH JOINS EPEAT IMAGING EQUIPMENT PROGRAM TO PROMOTE GREEN PURCHASING

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To continue helping organizations identify and address today’s major business challenges, Ricoh Americas Corporation is hosting its next Business Information Solutions Conference at Marlins Park in Miami, Fla. on February 5.

This Business Information Solutions Conference event is designed to help companies improve their business results by optimizing the flow of business information from its input, through its processing and its output to the right person at the right time in the right form.

“Our conference held in December of last year met with very positive feedback and confirmed that businesses are looking for concrete strategies they can use to improve their business information workflow,” said Terrie Campbell, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “We want to arm businesses with proven insights and practical tools to immediately apply to their own unique situations and this conference is designed to do just that. I’m looking forward to meeting and talking with more people about this important business challenge and offering ideas to the attendees for making some immediate information management improvements in their companies.”

As in December, the Miami conference will offer breakout sessions concentrating on some of the most important information management initiatives organizations are undertaking today, including:
• Optimize Your Mobile Workforce
• Improve the Environmental Sustainability of Your Workflow
• Your Operations More Effective and Efficient – Using a managed document services (MDS) approach to help improve processes, reduce costs and protect yourself from risks
• Get Big Company IT Services for Your Small-to-Medium Business
• In-house Production Print Services - Critical Trends in Enterprise Environments
• Digital Mail - Speed the Flow of Business Critical Mail
• Digital Imaging - Turn Legacy Data Into Usable Intelligence
• Production - Critical Business Communications Enabled by Automated Document Factory
• Production - A New Era in Marketing & Technology

"The December Business Information Solutions conference gave me a better understanding of changes in information with technology, generational workforce and mobile remote workers,” said a Ricoh customer from a California-based utilities company.

For more information, visit http://ricoh-usa.com.

About Ricoh’s Business Information Solutions
Through extensive analysis and experience, Ricoh has identified the major business challenges enterprises are facing today: globalization, increasing employee mobility, new generational work styles, exploding information volumes, mounting cost pressures and rapid IT infrastructure changes. The company directly addresses these challenges with its Business Information Solutions approach, which brings together technologies, services and expertise that can help to measurably improve business performance.

The Business Information Solutions approach streamlines an organization’s entire information workflow by improving:
• Input – capturing valuable information from employees, customers and partners.
• Processing – creating business value from information.
• And Output – distributing the information to the right person at the right time in the right form for productive action.

For details on Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

| About Ricoh |
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD).

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Feb 1 - RICOH TO HOST NEXT BUSINESS INFORMATION SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE IN MIAMI

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January 2013

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans say they’d choose to work virtually if they could. But despite abundant Internet access and increasingly powerful mobile devices, more than half of Americans (53%) believe the concept of the traditional office will last at least another 50 years. Americans who would choose to work exclusively in an office over working virtually would value the superior discipline, connectedness and information security the traditional office provides.

These are among the top findings in a recent survey of 2,512 American adults conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of business information solutions.

Americans were asked to choose between working exclusively virtually (from home, coffee shop, library, etc.) or exclusively in an office. In citing specific advantages of the traditional office, workers were expressing a fear of irrelevance that virtual work can engender.

“Virtual office technology has not yet caught up to employees’ fears that they may become irrelevant if they’re not perceived as being fully engaged with the traditional office,” said Terrie Campbell, Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Ricoh Americas Corporation. “While mobility is a signature of the new workforce, workers know they need to seamlessly collaborate with colleagues and superiors to demonstrate their ongoing value, especially in the current economic climate. Although the world is making significant advances in videoconferencing and information management, there’s no perfect substitute yet for meaningful face time. But innovation is moving at unprecedented speeds in this area, and progress will come.”

The generational paradox
When Americans who chose the office were asked why they preferred it over working virtually:

• 66% said they would be more disciplined and productive there.
• 51% said they would want to socialize with colleagues.
• And 39% said they would feel more secure about accessing, scanning, storing and printing information from an office.

Surprisingly, younger people seem to be the least enthusiastic about working virtually. In fact, 18-to-34-year-olds were the age group most likely to prefer working in an office (43% of them chose the office vs. 31% of those age 35-54 and 36% of those age 55+).

Areas for improvement
Meanwhile, two-thirds (67%) of employed adults feel dissatisfied about something in their current work situation, including the inability to get the information they need in a timely manner (18%); the organization being out of date with the latest technology trends (14%); too much paperwork (14%); and failure of co-workers to use technology tools to their full potential (12%).

“Although this dissatisfaction isn’t great news, it’s good that so many American workers appear devoted to improving their personal and organizational performance through better processes and technology,” said Campbell. “At Ricoh, we provide a Business Information Solutions approach to helping organizations and their employees collaborate more closely and productively whether they are working from home, a hotel room, their traditional office or all of the above.”

In fact, Ricoh has empowered its own employees to “go BYOD” (bring your own device). They can use any smart phone or tablet they wish to connect remotely with important sales, service and administrative applications. Ricoh has also propagated policies and controls across all of these devices, maintaining the ability to wipe them clean if an employee leaves.

Methodology
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of Ricoh from October 3-5, 2012, among 2,512 adults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample, and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact linda.montefusco@ricoh-usa.com.

About Ricoh’s Business Information Solutions
Through extensive analysis and experience, Ricoh has identified the major business challenges enterprises are facing today: globalization, increasing employee mobility, new generational work styles, exploding information volumes, mounting cost pressures and rapid IT infrastructure changes. The company directly addresses these challenges with its Business Information Solutions approach, which brings together technologies, services and expertise that can help to measurably improve business performance by optimizing the flow of business information.

The Business Information Solutions approach streamlines an organization’s entire information workflow by improving:

• Input – capturing valuable information from employees, customers and partners.
• Processing – creating business value from information.
• And Output – distributing the information to the right person at the right time in the right form for productive action.

For more information on Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

| About Ricoh |
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD).
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Jan 31 - WILL THE TRADITIONAL OFFICE EXIST IN 50 YEARS? RICOH SURVEY ASKS

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Jan 29 - RICOH DATA FORENSICS SOLUTIONS MAKE RETRIEVAL OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED EVIDENCE QUICK, SAFE AND COST-EFFECTIVE

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MALVERN, PA, Jan. 9, 2013 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced the SP 8300DN monochrome laser printer, offering new value for print-for-pay businesses and their customers.

The SP 8300DN is a reliable, cost-conscious, network-ready printer ideal for college campuses, libraries or any institution that needs to offer custom charge options. It provides new ways to establish, control and monitor print-for-pay operations, including charges, secure access, job configuration and more.

The 50 ppm device includes high-capacity paper options to handle large volumes of documents up to 11 inches by 17 inches as well as cost-reducing features to control unnecessary printing. Expandable security features such as locked print, hold print, store print and unauthorized copy control can help protect users from having their print jobs fall into the wrong hands.

The SP 8300DN is built on Ricoh’s new intelligent MFP technology platform, which is designed to seamlessly interface with the Web and cloud services. The platform offers mobility and security for optimal information input, processing and output in any setting. For example, walk-in users can print from portable media such as thumb drives using the device’s integrated USB/SD slots.

Successor to the SP 8200DN, the latest device includes a customizable 4.3-inch touch screen color LCD control panel. A built-in MFP Web browser enables users to navigate and print from the Web, and allows for access to cloud services, including applications for document capture, management, storage, processing (e.g., OCR), printing, sharing, customer relationship management and more.

Print-for-pay establishments can gain even more control over print requests when the
SP 8300DN is combined with Ricoh’s device management and reporting software, @Remote®, which can monitor fleets of networked printers and MFPs in real time, offering new levels of convenience, optimization and productivity.

Other printer features include an optional 120 GB hard disk drive for handling larger one-off, print-on-demand jobs. An innovative Eco Night Sensor that saves energy by turning the printer off or into sleep mode after a room goes dark.

In addition to print-for-pay establishments, other cost-conscious, mid-volume print environments can benefit from the versatile SP 8300DN, including host print environments, small data centers, healthcare facilities, financial institutions and government agencies.

The SP 8300DN is available now for a suggested retail price of $3,060 (USD). To learn more about Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com.

| About Ricoh |
Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD).
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Jan 9 - RICOH UNVEILS HIGH-PERFORMANCE SP 8300DN LASER PRINTER, IDEAL FOR PRINT-FOR-PAY ENVIRONMENTS

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